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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ramanujan contract from a mosquito-borne disease?

2. Where would Ramanujan's technique of solving math problems run into difficulty?

3. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan did at age 17?

4. What was Ramanujan's family's status?

5. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan as a potential husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. What work did Ramanujan eventually find?

2. Describe Ramanujan's wedding ceremony.

3. What led to Ramanujan getting married?

4. How was it that Ramanujan would solve math problems without seeing the logic that dictated the development and solutions to problems?

5. Describe the difference between English mathematics and Continental mathematics.

6. How did marriage change Ramanujan's life?

7. How did Ramanujan distinguish himself as a math student?

8. What happened after Ramanujan left Pachaiyappas College?

9. How was Ramanujan's health as a child?

10. What was the subject of the challenge Ramanujan set and then resolved in his first paper?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the two or three most influential influences in forming Ramanujan's character. What were the two or three most influential conflicts or absences or desires in shaping Ramanujan's character?

Essay Topic 2

What kind of mathematical thinker was Ramanujan? What kinds of problems was he attracted to, and how did he deploy his intelligence to solve them? What kinds of problems did he avoid?

Essay Topic 3

How English did Ramanujan become after he went to England? How Indian was he when he returned to India?

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